North Balti Zen

NOPE

That was a really fun game. If Embid is out for a game or two, this gets much more interesting.

Sure is. Would say it almost makes up for the last few days but...even this can't make up for the abomination that was Saturday and Sundays weather.

The trees by the dog beach at Quiet Waters park in Annapolis were overrun. It was quite a show.

It came out great. Flavor was tremendous and lots of positive feedback.

a week ago w/ classics - but this weekend w/ Quiet Place and Cruella and a few classics. God it felt good to get popcorn and see a film with people. Especially that movie. Old school awesome edge of your seat suspense.

thanks!

Returned to a movie theater for the first time since the 'vid. Saw Quiet Place Two. The movie was exceptional. Seeing it in a movie theater was exceptional. So glad to do that again. Especially since it was The Senator Theater in north baltimore - huge old school big screen (I know a bunch of you on here know that theater). Felt like normal times.

thanks. Hit 171 at four hours - per the youtube videos have wrapped and am finishing still on the smoker.

I am (just a hair older than the youthful @H2O ) - and despite a lifetime of grilling, have never tried to smoke a pork shoulder for homemade pulled. So, today is the day. About four hours in, using the off-set smoker for the first time, fingers crossed. Worst case scenario, I **** it up, and swing up to MissionBBQ and get it that way. But I think I have a shot at this.

This feels like a once every 250 year kinda event, frankly. Back to back days like this? At the ass-end of May? 26+ degree departures on the low side from average highs? It's ****ing awful.

This is easily the worst two day stretch of memorial day weekend weather I have ever been around - factoring in the cold on top of the rain.

Almost every time, seemingly, we are having where is the warm front obs in these situations, I step outside, immediately am cold, and think “not here”... so..”not here” for balt city, that’s for damn sure

Just a huge emergence in our front yard last night. We have one of those exoshell collections now under one of my oaks that is stomach churning in how many are piled up there.

Most definitely a wave of new emergences in Stony Run Park in North Baltimore. Also, a ton of new holes in my backyard that were not there a few days ago. I would guess about to see some there for the first time - altho the Memorial Day freezer weather may slow this down again...

this one is legit

Second round of emerging it looked like this AM near my house. One telephone pole so covered with shells that the lost cat sign was covered.

Ah. Could be. It was late, my sarcasm detector may have been off (although he is NE based met).

I was surprised Ryan H. didn't know this...

Had my first one land on me during one of the walks w/ the pup today. I named it Harold.

My professional sports rooting interests are Reds and Bengals (from as long as I can remember since I grew up in Cincy in the 70s), the Grizzlies in the NBA (was in memphis when they moved there in 2001 and will always be a fan now), and the Os - adopted on moving here in 2009. It has been, for a LOT of those years, rooting for teams that inevitabely disappoint w/ some highs scattered in. That said, the Grizzlies win last night over Curry and the Warriors in the play-in game was a fan rooting high that will sustain and nourish me for awhile.

Ok, lol, they are here now. Last night was apparently the signal to come on out - H20s theory likely right - needed to warm up the ground enough. We definitely have cicada song now - I see fliers - and my one tree that had a few early scouts is overrun.

It me. We have an oak next to our house that is 120+years old. Or more. Not one cicada on it. Our entire yard has only the five or six shells on one tree and it is full of mature trees. My whole neighborhood along Stony Run full of mature trees, and really, no cicadas.

For those who know North Baltimore, I walked tonight along Stony Run path, cut through Gilman over to Cathedral of Mary our Queen and then across Charles into Homeland and then past College of Notre Dame and back down toward Stony Run path via Wyndhurst. Along Stony Run path, there is just very little to no evidence of cicadas - and that is a heavily forested area that has been there a long time. It is puzzling as hell. As you approach Charles and cross over into Homeland, 1/4 mile to the east of the Stony Run path, there you find the cicada invasion long foretold. Crossing back over Charles and heading home along Wyndhurst, the cicadas go back to few and far between. Yes, it is shadier along Stony Run path but we certainly have been warm enough now that should not be as much of an issue (the cooler ground temps). So, I am asking the room - is the abundance of natural cicada eaters that exist in a forested area (birds, other varmints, etc) enough to explain why so many fewer cicadas in that area compared to the Homeland neighborhood (which, while treed, is not forest)? Or still just too cold ground temps under the canopy to see eruptions yet?